- create a new full backup of the boot drive every Monday morning at 6:00 am
- create a new incremental backup of the boot drive every Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat and Sun morning at 6:00 am
- keep the most recent 14 days of daily backups
- keep the most recent 12 weeks of full backups
Scheduling mixture of daily and weekly backups
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Scheduling mixture of daily and weekly backups
I'm not entirely sure how backup images vs backup sets work, and their relation to the task scheduler. Here is what I would like to do, which I think is pretty simple:
Re: Scheduling mixture of daily and weekly backups
My suggestion: You may use not only the R-Drive Image built-in scheduler, but also some .bat files with system commands like copy, del, etc. You may specify them on the Backup options panel.
Re: Scheduling mixture of daily and weekly backups
I've been using Bourne shell scripts (under cygwin) to help out with certain tasks. Does R-Drive Image pass any sort of command line arguments to the supplied programs or batch files (e.g., filename of the backup set) to help them along? Or do I need to hardcode that information into the script?
Re: Scheduling mixture of daily and weekly backups
Yes it passes, although you need to close them in "".
If you want to use .bat files, you need to use cmd.exe /c before the bat files.
R-Drive Image sets its own environment parameters. See R-Drive Image Help -> Technical Information -> Creating Consistent Point-in-Time Backups.
If you want to use .bat files, you need to use cmd.exe /c before the bat files.
R-Drive Image sets its own environment parameters. See R-Drive Image Help -> Technical Information -> Creating Consistent Point-in-Time Backups.